Prototyping the Bogi chair / Frumsmíði stólsins Boga

The chairs Bogi and Almar were premiered at DesignMarch 2012 in Reykjavík, Iceland. The prototypes were made in February and March by the designer who daily posted news and photos of the ongoing work on Facebook. All who had followed were then invitet to meet up with the chairs at the exhibition in The Maritime Museum, where they could try them out for design and comfort and also meet the new Aría table. Here are some of the Facebook photos again.

A technical drawing of a chair is just that - a technical drawing. Only when a chair has been made from the drawing do you know if it works. Most of the time it will not work exactly as expected. In all its simplicity a chair is a complicated object. You feel its existence in space, sense the properties of the materials, touch it and evaluate its properties for aesthetics and comfort. The prototype will reveal some of this and allow the designer to move on with his chair - prototypes are the designers clay.